RE: RE: Hivers, Can You Help?
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RE: Hivers, Can You Help?

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Welcome to the jungle that is Amazon selling/KDP! Hubby has been independently publishing his fantasy novels since January 2020 and - it is such a struggle to get seen, to get up in the ranking, to get reviews... very, very frustrating. Sometimes depressing.

Speaking of reviews, I am not sure it is a good idea to review an item that you haven't purchased. You get a 'verified purchaser' badge when you did and review and I could imagine that the omnipresent Amazon-algorithms might flag other reviews as being potentially 'bought'. You know, paying for reviews and stuff which apparently is a big thing. Found this

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Maybe double-check the product categories and make sure you use the right keywords (check similar products selling well) on your product. Also, why only ages 7 - 18?

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Maybe also add another couple of photos of the 'real book' and the inside as well.

And lastly, pricing - this is always difficult and very arbitrary but if I'm searching for a mushroom notebook all of them are quite a bit cheaper than yours. That is not necessarily bad but you'd need to convince me the potential buyer why I should spend more on your book than one of the others.

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Having said all this - I'd love to support a fellow indie author and buy the notebook and then review it as a verified purchaser 😍. Do you have any idea when you are going to update the cover? Do you have the cover ready to go? Will it also be created with AI? If not then this might be a point of differentiation to other books as I am sure that quite a few of the ones in above screenshot are also made with AI yet I'm not sure if people care (I do as you know).

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